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UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. IIAEDINGE, or vINELAND, NEW JERSEY, AssIcNoE or EIETY- oNE oNEIIUNDEED'rI-Is To EINLEY AcKEE, or PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA. 4

SAD-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,309, dated July 15, 1890.

Application filed January 26, 1883. Serial No. 261,936. (No model.)

T @ZZ wbOm/ may 0071/007711.' and near one edge, this beveled'portion form- Be it known that I, GEORGE F. HARDINGE, a ing with the side of the iron a sharp angle or citizen of the United States, and aresident of corner d, While the face of the iron at and Vineland, Cumberland county, New Jersey, near the opposite edge is curved gently up- 5 have invented certain Improvements in Sadward and forms a rounded corner f, the bevel 55 Irons, of which the followingis a specilication. or curve in either case being almost. or quite My invention relates to that class of sadas deep as the groove between the ribs, so irons which have transverse polishing-ribs that said ribs gradually [latten and diminish, across the face, the object of my invent-ion so as to be almost, though not entirely, elimixo being to so construct an iron of this class that natcd before reachin the corners d and f, as 6o it is adapted for performing a wide range of the diminished ribs of the corners serve, when work more acceptably than such forms 0f iron brought into use by the operator, both to reas hitherto proposed. move all lumpy part-icles of starch adhering In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is to the fabric and also to polish the said fabric. I5 a longitudinal section on the line 3 Lt, Fig. 3, The sharp corner (l permits the working of 65 of a sad-iron constructed in accordance with the iron'close in against a line of stitching my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse Section and the guidance of the iron parallel with of the same on the line l 2, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is said line of stitching, so as to practically proa view of the face of the iron, and Figs. 4,' 5, duce a relief or embossed effect, where such 2o and G are modifications of the invention.A elfect is desired, while the rounded corner is 7o Ais the body of the iron, which may be of intended for ironing the fabric at points adany suitable dimensions, andfmay be proyjacent to the seams, and also for ironing bevided with a handle structure of any desired tween rows of cording or equivalent ornacharacter, the handle shown in the present mentations of the fabric byim parting a rolling instance being a simple bent bar B secured or rocking motion to the iron, thus utilizing 75 at its opposite ends to the body of the iron. both the diminished ribs of the rounded cor- The under face of the iron is grooved ner an-d the well-deiined or prominent ri bs ou transversely, these grooves extending diagothe face of the iron for polishing said portions nally across the face of the iron, so that the of the fabric. 3o same has about midway of its length aseries The beveled portion of the face of the iron So of diagonal ribs a, which form the polishingis Hat and straight from end to end of the surface of the iron, and thereby materially iron, and in using the sharp corner (l theiron increase the polishing effect of the same, the is tilted up, so as to rest entirely on this flat diagonal disposal of the ribs rendering the beveled portion at and near the edge, so that movement ot' the iron easy, owing to the ana heavy pressure over a limited area can be 85 gie of the ribs in respect tothe longitudinal imparted to the fabric, and the iron can be axis of the iron. run along narrow plai ts without affecting the In frontand rear of the ribbed portion of material on either side. the iron are broad flat surfaces b, which serve In some eases I form the iron with V-shaped 4o to flatten, press, and otherwise prepare the ribs d-that is to say, ribs extending at re- 9o surface of the fabric for the polishing acverse angles from the opposite sides of the tion of the ribs, these surfaces also serving to iron and meeting in the center, as shown in lessen or overcome any tendency which the Fig. 5; but in this case l prefer to form a ceniron might otherwise have to travel sidewise tral groove g, Fig. 6, midway of the ribs, in on accountl of the diagonaldisposition of the order to facilitate the action of a tool upon 95 ribs forming the polishing-surface, and there the ribs in truing or polishing the same. may, if desired, be a similar flat surface b Having thus described Inyinvention, whatl intermediate of the ribbed portion of the iron, claim, and desire to secure by Lett-ers Patent, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, and G. is- 5o The under face of the iron is beveled at l. A sad-iron having on the face diagonal roo ribs, and having a broad [lat p1essings111fnoe in front sind rear of said ribbed portion, :L11 substantially :is described.

2. A sadiron having its face beveled at one side to form a sharp eorner d, said beveled portion being provided with diagonal ribs, substantially as described.

A sad-iron having its face curved at one side to forni a rounded corner f, said rounded portion being provided Wit-h diagonal ribs, io substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to lthis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE F. IIARDINGE.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM D. CoNNER, HARRY SMITH. 

